...a compile time action, by using the word "immediate" after defining it, it would have read the next word in your : definition and compiled it. It...'s simplest to just assume that words are executed when encountered outside of colon definitions, and compiled when inside. The exceptions ... such. Yes, but these are definitely advanced strategies, and rarely appropriate even ...

... interest whatsoever in stating any definitions other than their commonly accepted ...interest in stating defnitions of words that are incorrect?   They had...no interest in stating definitions of words that are not correct...occupied by looneytarians asking for definitions.   That's because what you...educates" the looneytarian of the definition of "jail."   Oh an irrevelent...

... can tick a VARIABLE or even a CONSTANT or (horror) a colon definition. Only words created with CREATE can be ticked. No you can tick any named word (provided the wordlist it's in is in ... or does to alter the behaviour (on words not created with CREATE). You must be referring...so they must associate some code with each word. As I use DEFERs or in ancient times...

...CONSTANT or (horror) a colon definition. Only words created with CREATE can be...is an execution token? From the definitions of terms: execution token: A value.... So, is a constant a definition with execution semantics? For CONSTANT, ...... so a constant *is* a "definition with execution semantics". I presume that...94 standard that *assures* that CREATEd words can be ticked, combined with some...

...It's absolutely not obvious that Correction: In ISO Forth it's not guaranteed that you can tick a VARIABLE or even a CONSTANT or (horror) a colon definition. Only words created with CREATE can be ticked. You must be referring to Figforth, Forth-97 and Forth-83. Not Forth-94! every VARIABLE (or CONSTANT) ...

...-FILE loses control until the word executed (xyz-helper in your ... doing that processing in the word that you execute through EXECUTE-...QUERY spec. or the previous definition of QUERY being incompatible with...Shouldn't all the obsolescent words be deleted from Forth 200X...hard to adequately specify such words in a way that properly...if you make the additional word enforce the nesting, like EXECUTE...

... part of that format, processed by a particular word called to deal with it after FILE-SOURCE ... in which case there is no way for any other word to find and restore it. Or ...> have to ensure they were used in the same definition with balanced R pairs between them. ... how many levels of nesting are used in the word which is processing the input, there's no way ...

...-FILE loses control until the word executed (xyz-helper in your ... system For comparison, look at words like SAVE-INPUT and RESTORE-... However, the problem with such words is that they do not ... QUERY spec. or the previous definition of QUERY being incompatible with ...Shouldn't all the obsolescent words be deleted from Forth 200X...that X executes the actual word we are interested in. A...

... a part of that format, processed by a particular word called to deal with it after FILE-SOURCE was ... in which case there is no way for any other word to find and restore it. Or am ...> have to ensure they were used in the same definition with balanced R pairs between them. Yes, ... how many levels of nesting are used in the word which is processing the input, there's no way ...

...Nevertheless, this can't really define the word "insanity," for reasons the poster Jack pointed ...: No .... are you? Consider the following definition on a mass scale across a nation ... understand the rhetorical questions implicit in the word "consider". Fine by me. Paranoic Type Schizophrenia ... identity? Where did you get this definition, from some obsolete Freudian text? Sean:...